Former defence intelligence analyst Paul Monk says there is a “deficit of trust” in Australia for China since President Xi Jinping took office and “that will not be easily changed”.
He said Australia needs to see action and not “smooth words” by China’s Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian.
“In his National Press Club address last year he spoke in all but threatening terms about the situation saying, among other things, China will resume sovereignty over Taiwan,” Mr Monk told Sky News host James Morrow. “And when it has done so, it will re-educate the Taiwanese people to understand their place within the Chinese world.
“That’s the real China and any soft talk from its ambassador, polished it may be, won’t change that.”
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